His brother Yukari Mishakuji, also a Colorless Clansman, actually has ( dyed) blue and purple hair, though). (Colorless Clansman Kuroh Yatogami's hair is drawn black, though.

Several Blue Clansmen (including the Blue King) also have the blue-as-black hair element.The Colorless Clan's powers appear as purple.In K, there are seven color-themed Clans with superpowers that appear as their Clan's color.In Jujutsu Kaisen, Satoru Gojo wears an outfit that's described as all-black but is colored and animated with purple or dark blue highlights,.The anime changes it to be completely black. Such robes are usually black, but less commonly purple, making it ambiguous which Pucci's outfit it meant to be. In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, the main villain Enricco Pucci wears a Catholic priest robe which in the manga is always colored purple.In general, if something black needs to 'glow', like magic circles, or as Beelzemon's 'darkness blasts' above, it'll be purple.Beelzemon (a Demon Lord Digimon) from the same series shoots large darkness purple blasts from his Blaster when in Burst Mode, his Blaster also is integrated to his arm.The darker Virus types are more associated with red. Inverted: Sakuyamon, who is based off a miko, has a purple light power.Made even stranger by the fact that other black characters in the adaptation appeared with varying shades of brown skin, and that the '60s anime works had also colored his skin brown. Infamously, Cyborg 008 in Cyborg 009 was colored with pitch black skin in the manga, which was then rendered as a very visible purple in the 1979 anime adaptation.In the Otome Game, it's only possible to tell it's blue if you know it's not supposed to be black. Atsushi in Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! has blue hair.Osamu's hair in Bokura no Hentai looks blue but the dialogue implies it's supposed to be black.However, Aizen continues to call his outfit black even in the anime. In the anime, his outer layers are changed to purple. Bleach: Baraggan Louisenbairn is clad in black from head to toe in the manga.Black Clover: Although Yami's Dark Magic spells are black, his mana itself is colored purple.This carries over into many of the mass-market toys (the ones for collectors tend to be actually black) to the point where some of them are near blue-violet. The Big O, despite being constantly referred to in-universe as 'The black megadeus' is shown mostly as dark purple.Not only is Black Lotus' metallic form shaded with a very subtle shade of lavender (a fact made more apparent when she stands next to Silver Crow) but her body is also accented with numerous purple gems and lights to give her a clear silhouette even when backlit. Gravity Is Purple may have some relation as well. See Analysis page for the full Mind Screw that is the representation of black with colors that are not black, and the science of why this is Truth in Television.Ĭompare Hair Color Dissonance, Purple Is Powerful, Evil Wears Black and Red and Black and Evil All Over (several of these can overlap with this trope). The explanation, however, is that this is actually why purple and blue are perceived as black: more energetic hues of light get to places and reflect on surfaces other hues cannot, giving deep shadows a disproportionate amount of blue-violet lighting.

note Though violet is the color that the human eye is least sensitive to. Also very common in anime, where dark purple/blue hair will be intended to be black and will be listed as such in official sources.Īs far as reality is concerned, this trope induces a lot of Fridge Logic, since violet is the most energetic part of the visible light spectrum. This has led to some mixed messages over whether (for example) Nightcrawler's fur or Spider-Man's leggings are blue, or if they're black in the same way Superman's hair is black (despite having blue highlights). In older comics, blue was used because it was one of the basic pigment colors and thus inexpensive (and because Hollywood Darkness is generally blue-tinted). Characters who fall under the Dark Is Not Evil trope are occasionally depicted this way too, to perhaps subconsciously suggest they aren't stereotypically evil. It also makes a character more recognizable from a copyright standpoint. In regard to character design, pseudo-purple hair is popular for similar reasons. Black is also difficult to work with when Power Glows because black is the color that absorbs all colors of light. This is predominantly because purple is easier to shade quickly and thus give the appearance of three-dimensionality solid black objects in animation (and Real Life see Vantablack ) lack contours and look very flat. Much like Hollywood Darkness, purple is often used as a stand-in for black in comics and animation.

Black and purple background